Pre-Race Predictions & Musings

Most likely hallucination?

BT: “I’m 100% sure I’m going to hallucinate. I’m so tired. I had grand plans this week of sleeping 8-9 hours a night to get ready for this, and I’ve averaged 5-6. Tonight, I’ll probably only get 6. Anyway, I think my most likely hallucination will be that I think I’ve crossed the finish line when I’ve only actually completed 6 of the 14 laps.”

Tad: “It would be really cool if I saw visions of someone I actually knew. Normally, I think when you hallucinate, you see a tree and you think it’s a person. That’s kinda lame because when I hallucinate, I would like to have a full-on scene playing in my head. Something poetic, like I’m running through the ocean spray on a tropical beach somewhere.

One word that describes this race?

BT: “I could say ‘epic.’ I could say ‘defining.’ I could say ‘destroying.’ I’ll settle on ‘epic.'”

Tad: “The-beginning.” (When I asked “the-beginning” of what? He responded, “Wouldn’t you like to know.”)

Body part most likely to hurt first?

BT: “my calves.”

Tad: “calves or shins. Somewhere in that general region.”

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